ʿAbbās Ḫān Sarvānī fl. ca. 987/1579

Written at the request of the Mughal Emperor Akbar. While it is unclear exactly what Akbar commissioned the author to write, the final product came very close to a biography of Šīr Šāh, a sultan of Delhi and Agra who ruled from 947/1540 to 952/1545 just prior to Akbar’s reign. Consequently, Tuḥfah-yi Akbar Šāhī is often referred to as the Tārīḫ-i Šīr Šāhī (The History ofŠīr Šāh) in reference to its overwhelming focus on the career, ancestry and achievements of Šīr Šāh. Tuḥfah-yi Akbar Šāhī was probably completed some time after 987/1579.